I freely admit I’m a sucker for a good Todd Grantham quote. He laid a nice one on Seth Emerson yesterday.

As Todd Grantham gets re-acquainted with the recruiting trail, he has developed a pretty central philosophy:

“The first thing I ask is: Can the guy help us beat Florida,” Grantham, the Georgia defensive coordinator, said on Wednesday. “I mean truthfully, because that’s who we have to beat to win the SEC. And off the guys that I feel like we’re recruiting and have committed to us, I can say yes off of that. So I’m really excited off those guys.”

But what about South Carolina – which won the division this year and might be the favorite next year?

“I’m playing percentages,” Grantham said.

Okay, technically that’s two, but you get my point. I hope he’s as good a judge of talent as VanGorder was.

I’ll give you Florida, but we just did the same thing everyone else did against Auburn. If Oregon wins the MNC, then I’ll admit they’re beatable. Until then, I’m not going to gripe about a loss that everyone else that played the same team has in common.

Granted. Just saying, if we’d taken care of business from the Florida game on, we win the SEC East. South Carolina wasn’t what did us in, Florida was. As usual. Even losing to SC, we could have won the SEC East. So, Grantham’s right to cite Florida as the team to beat, not the Gamecock blip on the radar.

He’s at least proven to be a damn good quote. With Spurrier nearly out the door, it is good to have someone tell it like it is… with a twist. I just hope Grantham can coach as well as he can quip like Ol’ Ball Coach.

I’m glad someone in the Georgia football program thinks 1) we can beat Florida, and 2) it’s important to beat Florida. Richt and McGarity seem a bit too comfortable with losing it. No wonder they get along so well.

I guarantee you that McGarity is not comfortable with the Dawgs losing to FLA no matter what the public pronouncements may be. If it happens 2 or 3 years in a row with him as AD he will be extremely uncomfortable with it.

I love CTG, and his determination to beat florida is always welcome news. But he had best get his ass in gear on the recruiting trail. Many JUCO’s and early enrollees would be starting school in a few weeks. We only have 1 DL, 1 DE and 1 ILB verbals for the D front seven. He better get those players he’s talking about, or hope Santa brings him a magic wand for Christmas.

I am willing to give CTG some time and some slack to get the defense ready to play. And he talks a good game so far. But he needs to back up that talk and get some fanatics on his defense and reconstitute the Junkyard Dawg mentality.

Keep CWM from cheery picking the state might help in the upcoming years, by shoring up sloppy in state recruiting. UGA needs to fence off the state ,and not just in football (Yes im talkin to you Coach Fox!). As a fan of UF, I cherish the talent we seem to pull annually out of Ga.

Quote Of The Day

“But outside of that, the biggest advantage you can have is have good leadership, have a veteran football team, and when you’ve got that, it doesn’t matter whether you have spring practice or not. When you don’t have that, it’s tougher, when you don’t have leadership and you don’t have the experience at certain positions.”— Kirby Smart, Dawgs247, 3/31/20